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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...>
To: Pavel Roskin <proski@...>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...>, Jon Masters <jcm@...>, Rusty Russell <rusty@...>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only symbols
Date: Thursday, February 28, 2008 - 7:25 pm

On Thu, 28 Feb 2008, Pavel Roskin wrote:

I'm not seeing why ndiswrapper should be treated separately.

If it loads non-GPL modules, it shouldn't be able to use GPLONLY symbols.

So if ndiswrapper needs GPL-only symbols, you'd better ask the people who 
made those symbols GPL-only whether they could be made available to 
ndiswrapper.

ndiswrapper itself is *not* compatible with the GPL. Trying to claim that 
ndiswrapper somehow itself is GPL'd even though it then loads modules that 
aren't is stupid and pointless. Clearly it just re-exports those GPLONLY 
functions to code that is *not* GPL'd.

		Linus
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[PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only sym..., Pavel Roskin, (Thu Feb 28, 6:11 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only..., Linus Torvalds, (Thu Feb 28, 7:25 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only..., Pavel Roskin, (Fri Feb 29, 2:20 am)
Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only..., Linus Torvalds, (Fri Feb 29, 12:08 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only..., Zan Lynx, (Fri Feb 29, 12:59 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only..., Jon Masters, (Fri Feb 29, 1:18 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only..., Adrian Bunk, (Fri Feb 29, 5:55 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only..., Linus Torvalds, (Fri Feb 29, 1:07 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only..., Pavel Roskin, (Fri Feb 29, 1:20 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only..., Linus Torvalds, (Fri Feb 29, 1:33 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only..., Pavel Roskin, (Fri Feb 29, 3:39 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only..., Ingo Molnar, (Fri Feb 29, 5:15 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only..., Pavel Roskin, (Fri Feb 29, 6:31 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only..., Ingo Molnar, (Mon Mar 3, 6:57 am)
Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only..., Pavel Roskin, (Tue Mar 4, 1:37 am)
Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only..., Ingo Molnar, (Tue Mar 4, 8:57 am)
Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only..., Linus Torvalds, (Tue Mar 4, 1:19 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only..., Ingo Molnar, (Tue Mar 4, 4:51 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only..., Jiri Kosina, (Tue Mar 4, 7:25 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only..., Ingo Molnar, (Wed Mar 5, 9:21 am)
Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only..., Pavel Roskin, (Tue Mar 4, 1:45 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only..., Ingo Molnar, (Tue Mar 4, 5:20 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only..., Pavel Roskin, (Tue Mar 4, 7:23 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only..., Greg KH, (Tue Mar 4, 1:38 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only..., John W. Linville, (Fri Feb 29, 4:17 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only..., Pavel Roskin, (Fri Feb 29, 4:44 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only..., David Newall, (Fri Feb 29, 4:40 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only..., Pavel Roskin, (Fri Feb 29, 4:59 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only..., David Newall, (Fri Feb 29, 5:08 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only..., Pavel Roskin, (Fri Feb 29, 6:17 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only..., David Newall, (Sat Mar 1, 4:15 am)
Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only..., Linus Torvalds, (Fri Feb 29, 3:53 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only..., Pavel Roskin, (Fri Feb 29, 4:08 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only..., Linus Torvalds, (Fri Feb 29, 4:28 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only..., Pavel Roskin, (Fri Feb 29, 5:13 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only..., Chris Friesen, (Fri Feb 29, 12:54 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only..., David Woodhouse, (Thu Mar 6, 10:56 am)
Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only..., Linus Torvalds, (Fri Feb 29, 1:06 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only..., Chris Friesen, (Fri Feb 29, 1:59 pm)